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Professor Dorn Featured in Video

Story posted November 08, 2010

Bowdoin Associate Professor of Education Charles Dorn is the subject of "The Voice," a weekly video feature of the Teachers College Record. Dorn discusses differing student and administrator attitudes toward civic engagement and concepts of the "common good" at Bowdoin College and Stanford University during the 1800s. His comments are part of a paper "From 'Liberal Professions' to 'Lucrative Professions': Bowdoin College, Stanford University, and the Civic Functions of Higher Education."